Velvet Chord
Classification:
2 Y-O[ Large-Cupped ]
Season:
Early to Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1998
Registered:
Yes, 2007
Seed Parent: 
Gold Velvet 1 Y-Y 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year of first flowering: 1978
Aurum x Arctic Gold
Gold Velvet
Pollen Parent: 
Scarlet Chord 2 Y-R 
Grant E. Mitsch, United States
Year of first flowering: 1981
(Chemawa x Brer Fox) x Loch Hope
Scarlet Chord
Seedling Number:
HH26/1
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 105 mm wide; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, only slightly mucronate, spreading, plane to a little concave, smooth and of heavy substance, with broad midrib showing, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, shouldered at base, somewhat inflexed, creased, with margins wavy; corona cylindrical, smooth, tangerine orange, mouth slightly expanded, lightly ribbed and frilled, with rim shallowly crenate. Sunproof.